Can you die of boredom

Can you die of boredom?
Obviously not, we are all still here aren’t we? Yawn ?

Well I'm not bored.
But yes, I think if you are seriously bored for too long your brain sort of switches off. There's lots of evidence that dementia is more likely when you don't keep your brain busy...

I have managed to keep busy, I do still do some paid work and some voluntary work that continues and has been busier since lockdown...

DH and I 'meet for coffee or lunch' and do the Grauniad crosswords, I have a jigsaw puzzle on the other end of the dining table. I have done more baking, complicated cooking and I am ahead on my book club booklist! Bulbs/seeds in the greenhouse doing well. We have caught up on many of the films /TV programmes & our film society has streamed films for us to watch at home... I have spent more time on Social media...

I just wish it would stop b....y raining, then I could get in my garden, then I would stop eating everything swigged down by too much rhubarb gin, then I would stop ordering ridiculous amounts of stuff online........I want to go to the library and pick up ordered books, I hate my kindle, oh dear, I’ll shut up now.

BlueBelle that's exactly what I want to do, escape into a good film in the dark

Yawn yaaaaaawn nothing to talk about nothing to do oh for a bus ride to the cinema a nice coffee and chat with my friend a giggle as we try to switch out phone on to silent in the dark theatre

I can honestly say I have not felt bored this past 10 months. I have spent it researching my family tree and have uncovered so much and documented it for future generations. In some places you can access Ancestry and other family research sites online through your local library . I did so for some months them paid up to record it all online . I have sent information to my cousin's son about his grandmother in India and found newspaper articles about our family as well including one where my grandfather was off to claim his share of a family fortune . Sadly I guess he did not receive anything as they were never rich. On the myheritage site you can upload old photographs have them improved and the coloured which really brings them to life . I get a buz every day sitting down at my computer digging and digging . I had my DNA done too and made ontact with the grand daughters of a relative who rose from working class to being a knighthhood . They had no idea of the extent of his story and I had loads to share .

I think in the situation we’re all in boredom can sometimes equal mild depression. I’m a bugger for tinkering with my weekly online shopping list, to keep changing it and it gets delivered gives me control when I have little elsewhere.

I think if there was some sort of date to aim for it would help

It certainly feels like it! We have had long power cuts the past few days - no lights, Kindle not charged... brain cells ready to implode. Never thought I'd be so grateful for a bit of battery life on a mobile phone!

It’s been a long haul - and not over yet. But Spring weather should help.

I do hope not as today I have been bored, first time since lockdown. I don't know why today, I just cannot seem to find any enthusiasm for anything.

Days are just blurring into one now! I'm sat up until 2 I'm just not tired

No you are not shallow, just bored and want to do something different.